Adventure Quest Africa - South Africa - 2002

[Dave]

A fascinating report from the Team Jabberwock's experience at Adventure Quest Africa race in 2002: 475km!

The Adventure Quest 2002 lured us with its siren call. We heeded its promise of adventure with a bitter-sweet mixture of hope and fear. This was to be Team Jabberwock’s first Quest and in fact our first race longer than 230 km.
"Cometh the hour, cometh the man": with butterflies in our stomachs we were looking forward to the most gruelling race Africa could offer...

http://jabberwock.jl.co.za/reports/quest/quest.html

DAP

[Dave]

And one from the International Adventurers team:

...The Leading team Edge passed through at 1115 with nearly an hours lead as the afternoon wore on Brazil Telecom passed through in 16th Place having been last at T1. The concern now was the impending dark zone for the next 50K water leg. The rules stated any equipment could be carried in the Crocs, so I suggested to some teams to take their mountain bikes, then land when darkness fell and carry the crocs on bikes. Most support members laughed this off, Howe ever I was not alone in these thoughts as other racers came up with the same idea, Team Fear worked out a method and were the only team to actually load their bikes onto the crocs...

http://iar2.tripod.com/adventure_quest_africa_2002.htm

-Dave